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On November 2, 2011, Canada 2020 and the U.S. Embasssy in Ottawa co-hosted an Innovation Conference on "The Canada–U.S. Partnership: Enhancing the Innovation Ecosystem.

In the final panel discussion, Sophie Vandebroek, CTO and president of the Xerox Innovation Group, and Shannon Deegan, Google's director of people operations, discussed how leading companies from the United States and Canada are able to consistently outperform their competitors.